17 June 2013

Old Saybrook to Leicester in 4½ hours, arriving Fern Lake just at noon. After unpacking the truck and stowing everything away, had to wait out a brief thunderstorm before touring the property.  Last time Chree was here, only the first section of the walkway had been completed.  Tour done, we exchanged the front bucket for the pallet forks and the backhoe for the 3-point log skidding rig.  Then Chree spent an hour getting used to operating the Kubota.  She moved a pile of brush over to the burn site and tried to drag a large stump to the same destination.  After she got stuck, I showed her that it wasn’t operator inexperience, the Kubota just isn’t strong enough to do what was wanted, i.e., I got stuck, too.  Perry stopped by with Lizzie to say hi (and so the dogs could get acquainted) just as we were getting the campfire going to cook dinner.